Picture of Mary Phelps Adair     

Picture of Family Mary and Thomas Adair     

                                   Husband    Thomas Adair

                    Son of Benjamin Adair and Anne McMillan, who immigrated from Ohio to Indiana, then to Olathe, Kansas in 1858.

                                           Date born   November 23, 1824 

                                              Highland County, Illinois

                                           Died    May 5,1913  

                                                  Olathe , Kansas

                                  Wife    Mary Ann Phelps

                                          Date born     December 21, 1841

                                             Coles County, Illinois

                                          Died    March 25, 1942  

                                               Olathe, Kansas

                                         Marriage    April 1, 1868 

                                            Coles County, Illinois

                           Children                                      Date born

                      Mildred Adair                        January 19, 1869

Married  November 15, 1893 to John Calvin Carpenter born March 21, 1869 died November 25, 1926 Houston, Texas.  Children    John Calvin Carpenter Jr.  February 22, 1897

                      Anna Adair                         November 24, 1871    Never Married

                      Helen May Adair                         May 19, 1877

     Never Married

      Mary Phelps Adair born Coles County, Illinois, December 21, 1841, died at her home in Olathe, Kansas March 25, 1942 age 100.  Married Thomas Adair in Coles County, Illinois.  He was born November 23, 1824 Highland County, Ohio, died Olathe, Kansas, May 5, 1913.

    Mary Phelps went to Olathe, Kansas in 1859, and for 2 years was clerk in the established Post Office there.  For a number of years she divided her time between Olathe and her home in Illinois.  Her marriage took place after the Civil War to Thomas Adair, and permanently located in Olathe, Kansas, where he opened a general store.

    In 1880, they purchased a farm northeast of town, where they lived until Thomas Adair died in 1913.   Mary  Phelps Adair moved into town, where she lived until her death.  On her 100th birthday she was showered with cards and a birthday cake and many flowers, with friends calling to congratulate her.  She had been confined to her bed for a number of years her mind was clear and active but her eye sight was some what dimmed.  

    She sent $100.00 as her birthday gift to the Christian Church at Olathe, having been a member for 85 years.  She had been a member of only two churches, the one she first joined at Hitesville, Illinois, near where she was born, and the church at Olathe.  She remembers when a girl proudly marching up on Sunday morning to drop a penny in the birthday box.